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Support for BlinkM I2C LED for use as Nav/Status Lights #2466

Closed sandysoundy closed 4 years ago

sandysoundy commented 9 years ago

Hello everyone, absolutely love and appreciate your work! This may not be a new request but it would be great to enable the use of BlinkM LED's from the pixhawk I2C port to add some nav/status lights to the aircraft on each arm of the copter to use as a reference to the status/direction of the machine.

Cheers,

Sandy

rmackay9 commented 9 years ago

In case some developer wants to take this on, there is already a blinkm driver in the PX4Firmware layer so the first step would be to test that works. Then we need to make an ardupilot driver in the AP_Notify directory perhaps similar to the ToshibaLED driver.

So overall it's not terribly hard. If you email drones-discuss@googlegroups.com and we can give more detailed advice on the programming side.

davidbuzz commented 8 years ago

BlinkM is generally considered inferior to the ToshibaLEDs, as there are licensing issues preventing it's use for any commercial purpose ( look at the "firmware license" link here: http://thingm.com/products/blinkm/ ), and it's price-per-unit is around double other ToshibaLED compatible units.

auturgy commented 4 years ago

with ws2812 now implemented, I'm closing this as overtaken by events. BlinkM led's aren't really relevant anymore.